linament

From Latin linamentum, from linum (“flax”).

linament (plural linaments)

1. (surgery) Lint (fine material made by scraping cotton or linen cloth, used for dressing wounds), especially when made into a tent for insertion into wounds or ulcers.

• Not to be confused with liniment.

• “linament”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• inmantle, lamentin